Bishops Wood

Worth seeing in and around Bishops Wood

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Weston Park

   Weston Park is a country house in Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire, England, set in more than 1,000 acres of park landscaped by Capability Brown. The park is located 10 miles north-west of Wolverhampton, and 8 miles east of Telford, close to the border with Shropshire.

   3.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Boscobel House

   Boscobel House is a Grade II* listed building in the parish of Boscobel in Shropshire. It has been, at various times, a farmhouse, a hunting lodge, and a holiday home; but it is most famous for its role in the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

   1.2 km · historic house museum in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Chillington Hall

   Chillington Hall is a Georgian country house near Brewood, Staffordshire, England, four miles northwest of Wolverhampton. It is the residence of the Giffard family.

   3.7 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Andrew's Church, Weston-under-Lizard

   The Church of St Andrew, Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire is a Grade I listed Anglican church. Its origins are medieval, but it was largely rebuilt in the very early 18th century by Elizabeth Wilbraham of Weston Park, and restored in the 19th century, firstly by George Edmund Street and then by Ewan Christian.

   3.5 km · church in South Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Belvide Reservoir

   Belvide Reservoir is a reservoir in South Staffordshire, England. It was built in 1833 to supply the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, and has been managed as a nature reserve since 1977.

   3.2 km · Canal feeder reservoir and nature reserve in south Staffordshire, England. · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Stretton Aqueduct

   Stretton Aqueduct is a short cast iron canal aqueduct between Stretton and Brewood, and near to Belvide Reservoir, in south Staffordshire, England. Designed by Thomas Telford and bearing his name plus its date of construction, 1832, it carries the Shropshire Union Canal 30 feet over the A5 road at a skewed angle.

   3.6 km · canal aqueduct in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bishops Wood

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Birmingham (BHX), 42 km · East Midlands (EMA), 64 km · Manchester (MAN), 74 km

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  32 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £4–5
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bishops Wood

  79 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bishops Wood

  89 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £11–14
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